Quotes for All
Few novels truly deserve the description ‘rollicking’ in the way Mary Novik’s Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich old-fashioned story-telling. Novik lures her readers into the streets of a bawdy seventeenth-century London with a nudge and a wink and keeps them there with her infectious love of detail … Read more
It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless. Gabrielle Zevin
The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developing any one ‘method of ethics’; he made this important move on behalf of everybody and just on its own account; and I think it plausible to suggest that this move on the … Read more
Let’s face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy. Eve Curie
[Some people] put their work on the internet and check every day how many people look, how many people made contact, but I don’t have internet, I don’t have a hand-phone, I don’t have fax, I don’t have email. I just have old-fashioned telephone and letters. Erro
Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don’t do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I’m talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it. Ernie Banks
I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair. Erich von Stroheim
I will jump on anybody’s private plane at the drop of a hat. I’m an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy. Eric Idle
I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern. Eric Allin Cornell
I don’t believe in things like that – fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It’s old-fashioned.’ ‘Well, we must be jolly old-fashioned then,’ said Bessie. ‘Because we not only believe in the Faraway Tree and love our funny friends there, but we go to see them too – and we visit the lands at … Read more